Re: [e-users] xkill and enlightenment root

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:32:36 +0300 (IDT) Nir Tzachar <tz...@cs...>
babbled:

> > > xkill does not recognizes enlightenment's root window as such. Hence, it
> > > is easy to use xkill to kill enlightenment, just by clicking on the
> > > background. 
> > > is this a known issue??
> > 
> > since xkill calls XKillClient... there is nothing to be done. that literally
> > kills off the client owning the window that xkill decides to use. the
> > client is disconnected from x foricbly. think of it as "kill -9 process_id"
> > - same thing. yes. e actually exist when you kill -9 it. :) same with
> > xkill. ie - dont USE xkill unless u are very careful.
> 
> ok.
> 
> but still, can a property be checked against the "fake" root windows e 
> uses? smthing like WM_E_FAKE_ROOT ????? i dont need a general purpose 
> solution, just one which works with e ;)
> 
> b.t.w. is there a more graceful way to close a windows remotely, other 
> than XKillClient (which is not so graceful....)??? 

e's window border menu has a "kill" option. try that.  (i assume you have
access to clikcing somewhere with the mouse as u need to with xkill OR provide
a window id)

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